If you use an email with your own personal domain name instead of a 3rd-party one, you’ll be able to make use of an email application such as Outlook, Apple Mail or Thunderbird to access and administer your emails. The advantage of using such apps is that they also offer other features, such as calendars and address books. There are two email protocols that you can choose from when you set up the application of your choosing to access your mailbox – POP3 and IMAP. With the first protocol, all messages that are received will be downloaded on your device – mobile or desktop, unless you opt to store a copy on the server. With the second protocol, the email messages will be displayed locally at your end, but they will stay on the server at all times, so you can set up the email account on multiple devices and check the messages from any place. You will also be able to examine old emails if there’s a problem with your Internet connection, which is a huge advantage over a web-based service.

POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Web Hosting

Each web hosting plan that we offer will enable you to create mailboxes with any domain hosted in your account and to set them up on any device. During the setup procedure, you can select between the IMAP and the POP3 email retrieval protocols, as we offer support for both, so you can decide which one to rely on depending on your preferences and the purpose of the account – you may decide to download all email messages in case you have a personal account and to keep the emails on the server – in case you’ve got a business account, for instance. The Email Manager, which is included in our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel, permits you to download and run a small auto-configuration file, so as to set up an email account with an email program – Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail. You can even use your phone to get your emails and we’ve added a comprehensive tutorial on how to perform this on an iPhone or an Android phone.